Poachers by Tom Franklin
In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching -- a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stories From the South: The Year's Best, 1999 and Best Mystery Stories of the Century), three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. And, as a weathered, handpainted sign reads: Jesus is not coming. This terrain isn't pretty, isn't for the weak of heart, but in these desperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human.Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Tales, as well as Hell at the Breech, Smonk, and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, the Willie Morris Prize in Southern Fiction, and the Gold Dagger Award for Best Novel in the United Kingdom. His most recent book, The Tilted World, was written in collaboration with his wife, Beth Ann Fennelly. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, and teach in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780688177713 |
| ISBN 10 | 0688177719 |
| Title | Poachers |
| Author | Tom Franklin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | William Morrow & Company |
| Year published | 2000-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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